Anh Pham’s Reviews > Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood > Status Update

This is an fictional autobiography of a boy who grew up in a village of Korea which was occupied by the Japanese. The story opens up with a mother crossing a river with her child. Flash forward, the narrator is going to 1st grade where he must grow accustomed to Japanese language & rules. While the scenes were vividly captured, my criticism is that the narration was unnatural; the boy sounded too old for his age.